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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

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